On 20:31 08 Mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Steve Lee wrote:
| > > In SecureCRT, (windows people) can send a packet every so many
| > > hours, to keep it alive, anyone with any ideas on doing this
| > > is Xwindows ?
| > while /bin/true;do ping -c 1 REMOTEHOST_IP >/dev/null 2>&1;done &
| ACTUALLY that should be:
| while /bin/true;do ping -c 1 REMOTEHOST_IP >/dev/null 2>&1;sleep 5m;done &
Wouldn't a plain
ping -i 300 REMOTEHOST_IP &
do just as well? Ping will happily ping forever, which is what your loop is
intended to do.
Cheers,
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